Rafah, February 11 (RHC)-- As Israel continues its mass starvation campaign in Gaza, nearly 10 percent of children under 5 years of age in Gaza are acutely malnourished and wasting, UN officials have reported.... More


Rafah, February 10 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nethayahu has reportedly ordered the military to develop a plan to both evacuate civilians from Rafah and bomb the southern city, as Palestine’s UN envoy questions where civilians will be evacuated amid the planned attack.... More


Gaza City, February 10 (RHC)-- The body of a six-year-old Palestinian girl, missing for 12 days after an Israeli tank targeted their family car in Gaza, has been found along with the bodies of two medics dispatched to look for them.... More


Khan Younis, February 10 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have arrested eight staff members of the PRCS at al-Amal Hospital in southern Khan Younis city.  Those arrested include doctors, wounded patients and the companions of patients.... More


Rafah, February 10 (RHC)-- Israel is ramping up its attacks on Rafah as it prepares to mount a ground offensive despite warnings of catastrophic consequences for displaced Palestinians and the United States saying it won’t back an assault on the southern Gaza Strip because it would be a “disaster.”... More


United Nations, February 10 (RHC)-- UNICEF has warned an escalation of Israel’s attacks in Rafah will cause hunger and disease to “skyrocket.”  Over half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have taken refuge in Rafah after Israel claimed it was a “safe” zone.  There are more than 600,000 children in the area. ... More


Sanaa, February 9 (RHC)-- Military forces of the U.S. and the UK have carried out a fresh aerial aggression against Yemeni territories, targeting numerous areas in Hudaydah Province.  In their latest act of aggression on Friday morning, the UK-U.S. forces launched airstrikes on Al-Jabana, Al-Taif, and Al-Kathib regions located in the western province, Yemen's al-Masirah TV reported.   The extent of the potential damage caused by the airstrikes is not yet known.... More


Port-au-Prince, February 9 (RHC)-- In Haiti, police killed five environmental protection agents Wednesday amid escalating protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and an end to gang violence. ... More


Chicago, February 9 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Illinois, prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against two Northwestern University students who published a mock school newspaper accusing Northwestern of being complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. ... More


Caracas, February 9 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Vice President for Science, Technology, Education and Health, Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez, showed the country's policies and programs in the food field to the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri.... More


Rafah, February 9 (RHC)-- Seham al-Najjar and her family have nowhere else to run if Israel intensifies its assault on Rafah, a town in southernmost Gaza.  Like 1.8 million people, Seham fled to Rafah in search of relative safety from Israel’s relentless bombardment and ground invasion in other parts of the Gaza Strip.... More


United Nations, February 9 (RHC)-- The United Nations is appealing for over $4 billion in aid for Sudan, which is facing some of the world’s worst internal displacement and hunger crises after months of fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. ... More


Rafah, February 9 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has bombed targets in overcrowded Rafah, hours after U.S. officials warned Tel Aviv against expanding its ground offensive to the southern city, where more than half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge.... More


Managua, February 9 (RHC)-- Nicaragua has formally requested to join South Africa in its genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN's top court says.  The Central American country filed its own application on January 23rd, the Hague-based ICJ also known as the World Court said on Thursday.... More


Cape Town, February 9 (RHC)-- South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor denounced the Israeli intelligence agency's attempts to "intimidate" her over the Israeli genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and reaffirmed Pretoria's support for the Palestinians.... More


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